Thursday, June 15, 2006

Automatically kill non-responding application at shutdown (Win Xp)

Remember this ! It happens to all of us invariably sometime or the other no matter what you do. Don't you hate waiting for those extra seconds and then simply responding yes to the windows query. Well you have a remedy. You can tell Windows XP to automatically close all non responding windows. Open registry by going to START-RUN and entering regedit. Navigate to [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktopn] . In this look for value of "AutoEndTasks". If available, do one of the following:If you want to enable automatic killing of non responding tasks, set its value to 1. to disable it set it back to 0.